On June 1, 2020 Claudia Karschti took over responsibility for Human Resources at Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW) Germany. Previously Claudia Karschti was with Yum! Restaurants International as Head of People & Culture KFC for the region D-A-CH/Denmark and member of the management board. Her earlier positions include HR Business Partner at Fressnapf Holding and HR Manager at Santander Consumer Bank. Claudia Karschti received her diploma in social sciences with a focus on economic sociology and economic psychology at the University of Duisburg-Essen.

The new vehicle will target retail assets in London and in the UK regions with a view to acquiring £250m worth of assets, building on Maya Capital’s expertise in the commercial office market.

RED Construction has been awarded a 28 week £7m contract at Angel Central Shopping Centre, Islington.

VIA Outlets – Europe’s fastest growing owner-operator of premium fashion outlet destinations – has, as of today, with Freeport Lisboa Fashion Outlet being the last one in line, reopened all closed and semi-closed centres in its eleven-strong portfolio. While the company was advised to temporarily close the majority of its outlets by local authorities in March and April in the wake of Covid-19, three were able to remain open throughout.

Klépierre, the European leader in shopping malls, announces that Julien Goubault has been promoted to General Secretary of the Group.

The 36-year old is the Center Manager of Forum 1 Salzburg by SES Spar European Shopping Centers.

Plans have been unveiled ahead of the reopening of London Designer Outlet, the capital’s leading fashion and lifestyle outlet centre, and wider retail at Wembley Park, one of the largest and most all-embracing urban development’s currently underway in Europe. Retail will start to open from Monday 15 June, in keeping with the Government’s lifting of coronavirus lockdown restrictions. Restaurants and Cinema will follow Government advice and plan to open as soon as possible.

The certifications are part of the “Shop Safe, Stay Safe” programme, an initiative the company has launched throughout its European portfolio. Neinver is committed to minimising the risk of Covid-19 transmission in the centres it operates

Mario C. Bauer has drummed up an investor group to save Vapiano.

European Outlets – back to normal? European outlet experts on the current situation and how they see and manage the future!

This year’s Expo Real will not take place in its traditional format. Messe München will instead provide a venue for the real estate industry by launching its Expo Real Hybrid Summit.

Boostcom, the world’s leading proptech supplier for shopping centres, has recently strengthened its global management team with four new hires, as retail
reopens after Covid-19.

Hines has released new details of ‘The Trinity Quarter’, a landmark hotel and retail redevelopment in the heart of Copenhagen, Denmark.

SIGNA will also begin to use communication formats on various channels and levels to provide information about the project, e.g. on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram under the identity “NOT WITHOUT YOU”, on a newly designed homepage at and with various events and activities.

FitForCommerce, a boutique omnichannel and digital consultancy, announces the appointment of Gary Burrows to the FitForCommerce Malls & Meeting Places practice as its Managing Director.

NEINVER recently reopened its four Greater Madrid and Barcelona outlet centres in Spain, thus resuming operations across all its retail portfolio in Europe.

On Solutions, part of Balfin Group, in collaboration with Qivos, received the Gold Award in the category of “Best Partnership Initiative” in Loyalty Awards 2020, for providing customer experience and achieving customer engagement, in four different companies, under one loyalty scheme, the Happy Program.

For Ingka Group, sustainability is at the heart of everything it does. Its ambition is to inspire and enable 1 billion people to live a better everyday life at home within the limits of the planet by 2030.

Although the closure of the international borders and the limitation of regional movement within Italy are having an impact on the footfall in the centre compared to the same period last year, in this first week of re-opening visitors were not lacking and some categories of goods have seen an even greater interest than usual, for example: children’s fashion, bedlinen, kitchenware and sportswear.

Inter IKEA Systems B.V. announced Konrad Grüss will become its new Managing Director. He succeeds Jon Abrahamson Ring, who will become CEO of Inter IKEA Group as per 1 September.

Following the easing of government restrictions, Capital & Regional will be allowing all retailers who had previously been prevented from trading to reopen from 15th June across its portfolio of seven UK community shopping centres, with the exception of leisure and dining facilities which, unless solely operating a takeaway or delivery service, will remain closed until the restrictions are eased further.

Trei Real Estate GmbH (Trei), a developer and asset holder for residential and retail real estate with activities across Europe, just opened the 17th retail park of its Vendo Park brand in Poland. The retail park is located in the city of Płock in the Masovian voivodeship.

The same also applies to the food & beverage fair “The Happetite”, which was supposed to take place at the same time on July 1 and 2, 2020 in Milan. Both events will return in 2021.